Chief Editor’s Note
Dear aspirant, read today's paper with one question in mind: who holds power, and on what terms?<br>The Supreme Court on Form 6 and Section 18 is a reminder that the Election Commission acts as a collective body, not through its Chairman. It is a Prelims staple and a Mains line on institutional integrity.<br>The mining amendment rewards revision of the Seventh Schedule: Entry 50 invites Parliament's limits, while Entry 49 does not.<br>In Great Nicobar, the Shompen case puts culture, not just habitat, at the centre. Revise Elwin, Ghurye and Nehru's Panchsheel.<br>The Bogibeel barge shows that N
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A River Against the Map: Upper Assam Ships Abroad After 70 Silent Years
- GS1
Integrate or Preserve? The Shompen and India's Oldest Unanswered Tribal Question
- GS2
A Form Is Not a Webpage: Who Can Change Form 6 and Who Is the Election Commission?
- GS2
A Dead Resolution, a Living Question: Why the Privilege Reference Should Not Quietly Close
- GS2
Same Stakes, Opposite Reactions: How the Mining Amendment Fences In the States' Taxing Power
- GS2
The Plateau Signal: India Prices Its Red Lines as Tariffs Turn From Bargaining Chip to Coercion
- GS2
Beyond Tariffs: How India Is Using TEPA to Trade for Capital, Technology and Mobility
- GS2
Pakistan's Army in the Gulf, Fighting at the Red Sea Gate: What the First Mecca Pact Activation Means for India
- GS3
GST Without Handcuffs: Can Data Do the Work That Fear Did?
- GS3
Two Wheels, Rs 1,044 a Month: How India Privatised the Daily Commute
- GS3
The Pond Alga That Gave Neuroscience Its Light Switch
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A Botswana Father, an Indian Mother: Project Cheetah Fixes Its Genes Faster Than Its Landscape
- GS4
A Shotgun in the Dark, a Shield on Paper: The Cauvery Killings and the Price of Conditional Immunity
- GS4
True and Still Dangerous: When a Leader's Warning Reaches the Emergency Room
- GS4
One Tablet, One Child: What a District Health Officer Owes Before the Next Malaria Drive
- Editorial
Saving the Bird, Losing the Grassland: When Flagship Conservation Becomes a Substitute for Landscapes
- Editorial
Ship It Fast or Build It for Everyone? India's AI Rush and Its Disabled Citizens
- Opinion
Count Jobs, Not Just GDP: Why Employment Must Be India's First Economic Yardstick for the Next Decade
- Essay
When Answers Become Cheap, Who Will Ask the Questions?
- Ethics
Impartial but Never Indifferent: When Fair Rules Produce an Unfair Experience
